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The PCB design I went with was based off of the multi-normal design using a multiplexer as I've had success with it in the past. I've actually meant to do an update for this project because there's been complications in life. Simply put I've had to drop the project as my multiple sclerosis has...

Back on the warpath with the project(s) and my latest bugbears have been the interference "musgrave" lines that I've been seeing on the screen. I spent a lot of time trying to track these and eventually concluded that it was electrical noise coming in from the 5v line. I found this a bit...

Did you think there wouldn't be more updates to this thread now that the competition was over? FOOLS! THERE WILL ALWAYS BE IMPROVEMENTS TO BE MADE! ahem So one of the core issues I had with this build was that the MX4SIO was intermittent, and it really felt like it depended how you held your...

When you do get this going I'm interested to see if the resulting HDMI image is letterboxed like in the other analog to HDMI converters :D

I've an update for this thread! So I really couldn't get this to work in my competition entry and I've spent the better part of a month trying to figure out why it wouldn't go. Recently I sat down and did a two-week deep dive as to why I just couldn't seem to get the two to talk to each other...

The first portable I made was in an actual lunchbox, only after I got that going did I upgrade to frankencasing a shell, and the Lynx does look awfully like a small food container. Just saying.

This post was supposed to have some photos, notes, bits and pieces associated with polishing the portable off, but I'm kind of out of time right now so they may have to be added later. I spent the entire day getting the competition video cobbled together, I'm 100% sure I've probably missed...

Sometimes it feels like there isn't a hot minute before something goes wrong. I was cooking in the kitchen when I heard a faint "plink" sound on my bench. Thinking that I'd left the iron on I investigated and found that the case on the portable was lifted at a corner. Turns out it had broken a...

It's done. This was quite a task to get everything in order. I guess I'd better start with the internals. So wrapping up the internals for the Junkstation was supposed to be a straightforward operation: add the extra bits in, put things in place, walk away laughing. Oddly enough the audio...

It's worth noting that there's suddenly a lot going on with life right now (unexpected hospital visits) so my standard for this years competition is about to take a massive slump as I kind of, really, don't actually care... Anyway, it provides a distraction I guess, so here's the progress! I...

Well this was cool, but we all know that sometimes we just can't have awesome things. I got the acrylic milled today for the front screen, and underwent a horribly fiddly assembly process to do a test fit. Suffice to say: it looks really cool. Period. The acrylic frontage is held in place by...

Update time: I hoped to get the portable finished this weekend, but spanners got in the works so it'll have to be finished this coming week. Still, there's a bit that's been done, I'm short on time so this post is unstructured and long, think: Blaise Pascal quotes. To kick off with: the screen...

This post comes with a little bit of bad news - Fluffy the Waxeye died yesterday. We don't know why, but these things aren't unheard of in little birds, but she won't be in any more posts and there's a strong possibility my work standard will sink without her constant checking that everything is...

So after over four days of troubleshooting and trying to figure out why, I've been unable to get the Mango to talk with the PS2 board in this project. I found that the wiring was wrong, so steadied my hands as best I could to solder to traces and see if I could rectify the issue. Short answer...

So it's been a focused few days as I've been hellbent on getting this up and running so I've got limited time to do this before I have to go on holiday. One of the big outstanding issues I've had is that my desolder pump has become increasingly unreliable. The little metal grommet had some...

So I put in a huge amount of effort today (possibly too much) but I'll get to that. I've assembled the majority of the carrier board and have been able to check things over as I've gone. It appears to be working well and as expected. Fluffy looked it over even. . Then I discovered that I'd...

Small update: after a lot more frowning at the sheets I simply concluded that "test points for everything" was the way to go about solving this problem, and designed a little prototype board based around two PIF chips, and to muxers. I liked the idea that Otakus had of using IDC connectors for...

So the boards I designed with JLC arrived a couple of days ago and I've been sitting on them while waiting for the PS2 SX4MISO unit and the LEDS. As fate would have it both of these arrived today so I opted to try and do some assembly and see if the power system could at least be kicked over -...

Right, after prolonged interest from people here in NZ it'd appear that I'm doing this - I've also got a grudge to settle! I'm thinking of a simple 2 PIF setup as demonstrated here: https://www.retrovideogames.de/mods-adaptors/nintendo/n64-multinorm-single-switch-mod-overclocking/ This has a...

Hey guys, so it's been about six years and thanks to friends talking with me I'm kicking the hood off of this one again: what's the state of multi-region mods for the Nintendo 64? I'm aware of the UltraPIF, but it's cheaper to buy another N64 and use a donor PIF (so I'd just do that). I'm...